Making Waves: Radio as a tool to build and organize community There are various community radio stations, programs and projects that are using radio as a tool for building and organizing their communities. The strategies that the proposed groups use range from running Low Power FM radio stations, doing media trainings and producing radio programs, organizing a collective to produce weekly programing, using radio to develop leadership among youth, spreading information on labor rights, constructing a cultural common ground, using the radio to facilitate communication between people incarcerated and their loved ones on the outside, or denouncing police brutality.
The goal of this workshop is to share experiences of groups that are utilizing radio to organize their communities. This means discussing results (won campaigns) as well as process (how they organize their radio.) The audience is grassroots, base-building organizations- especially immigrant organizations, youth, and those organizing around the prison industrial complex- that might be interested in 1) applying for a Low Power FM Radio Station in the next filing window, 2) exploring radio as a useful strategy for some of their existing organizational goals (building leadership, etc..)
Hacer ondas: La radio como herramienta para construir organización comunitaria There are various community radio stations, programs and projects that are using radio as a tool for building and organizing their communities. The strategies that the proposed groups use range from running Low Power FM radio stations, doing media trainings and producing radio programs, organizing a collective to produce weekly programing, using radio to develop leadership among youth, spreading information on labor rights, constructing a cultural common ground, using the radio to facilitate communication between people incarcerated and their loved ones on the outside, or denouncing police brutality.
The goal of this workshop is to share experiences of groups that are utilizing radio to organize their communities. This means discussing results (won campaigns) as well as process (how they organize their radio.) The audience is grassroots, base-building organizations- especially immigrant organizations, youth, and those organizing around the prison industrial complex- that might be interested in 1) applying for a Low Power FM Radio Station in the next filing window, 2) exploring radio as a useful strategy for some of their existing organizational goals (building leadership, etc..)
The Prometheus Radio Project builds, supports, and advocates for community radio stations which bring together and empower participatory community voices and movements for social change. To that end, we demystify technologies, the political process that governs access to our media system, and the effects of media on our lives and our communities!
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